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EL PASO
ERALD
Tuesday, March 29, 1910.
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Contestants Once Started
Herald Readers In
Subscriptions Through
larity of the Paper
The contest has just started and there
Is plenty of room In all the divisions for
mow candidates. The winning candidate
roay not yet have been nominated. If
you have been thinking- about a try for
the valuable prizes offered by The
Herald, send in your name or if you
have a friend -whom you can assist to
win, place them In nomination. This is
certainly a great opportunity to secure
a beautiful Overland automobile, an
Apollo player piano, a vacation trip of
unusual attractiveness or any one of a
number of other valuable prizes. Now
is the time to begin -work for a success
ful campaign.
Getting- Votes Is Easy.
Every mail is bringing enthusiastic
letters from contestants whohave been
out among their friends In quest of sub
scriptions and -who are very much elat
ed at finding the work of vote getting
so easy. It isn't the hustling In Itself
which is so difficult making the start j
Is where the trouble comes in. Once
started, contestants find hosts of friends
who are more than willing to help them
along, both with subscriptions and by
hustling for them. There may be many
who, up to this time have not done
anything to increase their standing be
cause they do not feel that they are
fully acquainted with the contest de
tails. If this is so, the contest editor
will gladly furnish the desired infor
mation at once. This offer to assist
contestants in this way is open always j
and for the accommodation of the con
testants The Herald has made every
preparation possible to facilitate the im
mediate answering of all correspond
ence received from candidates.
Organize at Once.
After the nomination Wank has been
carefully filled out according to in
structions and mailed to The Herald,
begin among the people you know best
to interest them in your candidacy.
Persistent effort for a few days will
bring results and In the meantime you
will have interested a sufficient num
ber of persons in your candidacy that
cooperation will come spontaneously.
Talk Herald Popular Voting contest
everywhere you go. Tou need not be
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This car has been selected for its power, comfort and
elegance, and for the simplicity of its mechanism.
It is one of the best cars made in the United States
today and compares favorably with cars selling at a
much higher price.
j much higher price.
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8 Sold by W. G. Dim & Co., El Paso, Tex. tbe entire range of the keyboard.
Find Vote Getting Easy
AH the
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itestaxiis
Makes It Easy to Get
afraid of becoming a tiresome bore on
the proposition because every reader
of The Herald is already interested and
those persons who are not readers of
the most popular newspaper In the
southwest will welcome information.
Write Tour Friends.
Candidates can secure many votes by
writing letters to their friends In other
towns. If they do not happen to be
Herald readers they will probably not
know that you are a candidate and will
help the first contestant that makes an
application for their subscription. It
will be well worth your while to write
everyone you are acquainted with in the
entire four districts and get your friends
to use their influence with their friends
in your behalf. A little correspondence
will make you thousands of votes and is
certainly worth the time given to It.
Report Evexy Bay.
Send in your reports to the Contest
Editor every day as there are often
suggestions which he can make to you
which you will find of great value in
increasing your votes. Try to keep your
vote well up with the leaders so that
your friends will know that you are
making the proper effort in your own
behalf. An earnest worker will soon
gain friends who will be of invaluable
assistance before the close of the con
test. Get Correct Addresses.
In sending in the names of sub
scribers be sure that the correct ad
dresses are given, as the failure to give
a correct address often results In the
subscriber not receiving the paper
promptly. Delays occasioned by such
oversight are vexatious and may create
the impression among friends that the
contestant may have been lax in at
tention to the details which would as
sure prompt and correct delivery of
the paper 'to those who had helped In
crease the vote.
Xew Subscribers Help.
Every new subscriber you secure is
an added supporter in the ranks of your
cohorts. The excellence and quality of
The Herald's news and features will im
mediately appear to any person who
may not have been taking the paper up
to the time you approached them and
siaa to rav
and the Popu-
secured their subscriptions. This pleas
ing fact will lead them to suggest to
their friends that they also take The
Herald and quite naturally you will be
the one to whom the prospective sub
scriber will be referred.
Advertise Your Town.
Every town and community which
has a candidate in the contest will be
brought prominently before the reading
public in a way which will call atten
tion to the activity and the degree of
wide-awakeness as evidenced by the ef
fort put forth to win a nrize.
Pictures of Candidates.
The Herald will shortly begin pub
lishing the pictures of contestants and
every person who is entered in the con
test is urged to send his or her pho
tograph to the contest editor. It is best
to send a picture larger than those of
postcard size. Regular cabinet size Is
best. Reproduction from poor prints or
from very small pictures is not effec
tive. The pictures will be kept until
the close of the contest, so that if you
are among the winners your photograph
may appear in large size in the paper.
Write your name, address and district
number on the back of the photograph
and mail It so that it will not become
mutilated in transit.
Cnt Out the Coupons.
A voting coupon is now being printed
in the paper every cay. Be sure to have
your friends cut these out and save
them for you, as they rapidly pile up to
quite a considerable item in your vote
standing. Coupons to be counted mus
be carefully trimmed and mailed to the
contest editor, El Paso Herald, in a flat
package. Coupons rolled or sent in
torn will not be counted, as time can
not be taken to straighten them out.
Each Contestant Can "Win.
While it is not possible for every
contestant to win one of the grand
prizes, The Herald is offering a special
prize which can be won by each and
every working contestant in all the dis
tricts. To encourage early effort on the
part of all candidates In the Popular
Voting Contest The Herald will keep
track of the new yearly subscriptions
sent in by each contestant and as soon
as six have been received will present
to the fortunate contestant either an
eight volume set of Masterpieces of the
World's literature, or a ten volume set
of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Just
think of it you only have to get six
people to take The Herald for one year
and you get absolutely free your choice
of a 10 volume set of Kipling or ar
eight volume set of Masterpieces. Or,
we will send both sets to any contestant
for the first 10 new yearly subscrip
tions sent in.
Rules of Contest.
Any person of good character Is eli
gible to enter this contest. Every can
didate must be regularly nominated on
the nomination blank which is printed
in The Herald. Any person can nomin
ate one or more candidates, domination
blanks should be mailed at once to the
Contest Editor of The El Paso Dally
Herald. Each nomination made gives the
nominee five votes. No person living In
the city of El Paso is eligible to enter
this contest and no votes will be al
lowed on subscriptions in El Paso or
suburbs.
The Herald's Popular Voting Contest
will be divided into four districts. Each
district will contest for four Grand
prizes and three district prizes. No per
son can win more than one prize. The
contestant having the largest number
of votes will be awarded the $1250 Tour
ing Car, the next highest will win the
$800 Apollo Piano Player; the third
highest will win a double trip to New
York and the fourth highest will win
the $400 Hobart M. Cable Piano. In the
districts where Grand prizes are award
ed the next highest vote will win the
$125 VIctrola; the next the $50 set of
silverware and the -next the $25 Camera.
In case of a. tie between contestants
the value of the prize for which they
are contending will be equally divided.
Contestants must be entered In the
district In which they live and contest
ants moving from one prize district to
another after being nominated will be
retained in the district from which first
nominated.
Contestants may secure votes In any
district they desire and votes once count
ed cannot be transferred.
No employe of The Herald nor a
member of an employe's family will be
permitted to compete for the prizes. This
includes newsdealers and paid corre
spondents. The Herald reserves the right
to reject any nomination that may be
considered objectionable.
The Herald guarantees fair treatment
to all contestants and in all questions
that may arise the decision of the Con
test Editor wiW be considered final.
The Herald reserves the right to add
to or change the rules as may be neces
sary to best protect the interests, of both
the contestants and The Herald.
All prizes will be in El Paso ready for
delivery to the winning contestants on
the closing day of the contest.
Votes can be secured either by clip
ping the coupon vrhich will appear in
the paper every day and sending it in
to be credited or by securing paid la
advance subscriptions to the paper.
Votes for subscriptions secured will be
credited according to the following
schedeule:
VOTE SOHEOTTLE
Dnliy Herald.
1 Month ... ...? -60 .... 100 Votes
3 Months ..... 1.S0.... 500 Votes
6 Months - 3.60 1500 Votes
1 Tear 7.00.. ..5000 Votes
Semi-Weakly Herald.
1 Tear $2.00 600 Votes
If you want to be in the running for
these magnificent prizes have some one
fill out the nomination blank which ap
pears in this isue and mall It to th
Contest Editor, El Paso Herald.
Note Special prize offers do not af
fect in any way the awarding of the
regular prizes. No one is barred from
winning a regular prize on account of
having received a special prize.
El Paso people have been excluded
from this contest, because The Herald
realizes that it would be impossible for
its out of town subscribers to compete
with local people on even terms. There
is a Herald subscriber In nine out of
every 10 homes in this city, and an EI
Paso contestant could easily keep ahead
of an out of town competitor by merely
collecting from the subscribers in his
Immediate neighborhood.
H. P. IToake, Distributor, El Paso,
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New York, Four Victrolas, and Many Other Valua
ble Prizes Are Offered For a Few Weeks'
Great interest in The Herald's popu
lar voting contest is being shown in
all parts of the southwest, and present
appearances indicate that there will be
entries from practically every town In
this territory. The fact that The Herald
is excluding its city suDscribers from
this competition makes it much easier
for contestants in the outside districts
to win, and they are quick to appre
ciate this fact. In most contests of this
nature the out of town subscriber has
to compete on an even basis with the
local contestants, and in that case it is
almost a foregone conclusion that the
larger prizes will go to some of the
contestants in the home town, leaving
only the district prizes for the out of
town contestants to compete for. Iu
The Herald's contest this feature Is
eliminated and all contestants will be
on an equal footing. Some one In one
of the smaller towns is bound to get
the automobile, the player piano, the
trips to New York or one of the other
prizes offered. No town Is too small
for contestants to enter from, as they j
can, in addition to their own efforts, j
get votes by having friends work for j
them in other towns. !
It Is not so difficult as you may think
to get subscriptions In a contest of this j
kind the difficulty lies in getting j
started. Once you get going it is sur- j
prising how many friends you will find
who will not only enbourage you, but
will actually get right out and assist j
you in securing votes. If you have not
already entered the contest fill out one
of the nomination blanKs and send it
in to the contest editor of The Herald.
He will immediately send you receipt
blanks and reports with which to work,
and will assist you in every way pos
sible under the rules of the contest to
get your campaign started. After you
get over the first novelty of campaign
ing and learn how to approach a pros
pective subscriber the work Is so easy
that you can pile up an immense vote
in no time at all. The list of contest
ants and the votes to their credit Is
now being publisned twice each week,
a.nrt this list is of interest, not only to
the contestants themselves, but also to I
the thousands of Herald readers who
are wondering to whom to give their
votes as they p?.y up their subscrip
tions. Competit'on of any kind always
attracts attention, and if you keep your
name well toward the top you will find
that scores of people of whom you have
never heard will take an interest In the
effort you are making, and will send in
their votes for you.
A beautiful Overland car has been
purchased as the first grand prize. In
selecting this car The Herald feels that
it is giving its hustlers the best there
is on the market. The new 1910 models
in a narrow
car for women.
Tex.
Two Trips to New York
This trip can be taken at any time during the ensuing summer, as on ivlay 10th this
transportation will be subject to the order of the contestant winning the third grand,
prize. Realizing' that no one' enjoys traveling alone The Herald has arranged this trip
for two people, and this gives the contestant a chance to take along some one who mil
share the jjleasure of such a trip and greatly add to its enjoyment.
Fourth Grand Prize
Cable Piano
j
This piano is from the factory of one of the best known
manufacturers in the country and is warranted to give com
plete satisfaction in every detail.
It is a beautiful instrument, has perfect tone, and the cases
are masterpieces in exclusive artistic design.
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Automobile, Apollo Player
ustling Among
represent the latest advancement of
motor car manufacturing, include every
feature desirable to an owner and ap
proved by modern engineering, and all
Indications point toward its being the
most popular car of the season. The
color is dark blue with fine lined gold
striping, making a very attractive and I
lasting finish. Tne business of manu
facturing automobiles has advanced so
rapidly in the last year or two that
the mechanical troubles which so dis
couraged automobile owners for a time,
have all been done away with and now
all that is necessary Is to start your I
car and know how to steer it- With
the perfection of the mechanical parts
has also come the cheapening of the
operating cost until now It only costs
about half as much to run an automo
bile as it doe? to care for a horse. In
this respect we are pleased to state that
the Overland has proved at a number
of tests that it Is one of the "cheapest
running" cars manufactured. Another
important feature in this car is the
control, which is so perfect and yet so
simple that any woman can feel per
fectly safe in running the car.
The Apollo Player piano which is tp
bo given as the second grand prize is in
a class all by Itself. There are. any
number of other players, but the
Apollo Is the only one which utilizes
the entire key board. It Is the only
mechanical player made to use SS keys,
which is 23 more than other players
use. When you stop to tumK that only
a very small percent of the music
written can be played without altera
tion on 65 keys the superiority of the
Apollo is very apparent.
The third grand rrize, the double trip
to New York and return by way of
water route, while not the most ex
pensive will probably be the most allur
ing prize of all when the hot summer
days are here. In choosing this trip The
Herald has taken into consideration the
fact that its readers nearly all of them
would prefer a vacation on the water to
almost any other pleasure trip which
could be selected. The line of coast- f
wise steamers from Galveston to New
York is well known as one of the finest
in point of passenger service which can
be found anywhere. The hotel accom
modations in New York city will be
the best which can be secured and
nothing will be overlooked to give the
lucky winners of this prize the est
time they have ever had. We say win
ners in tMs case because all arrange
ments have been mado to entertain two
people for this entire trip. The Herald
pays all expenses for both and two
people can enjoy all the benefits of
winning this prize.
In the selection of a piano the name
Hobart 2L Cable can be depended upon
The Overland has power, speed and neverfailing abil
ity; it is big enough to give plenty of room, yet it is so
handy that it can be readily turned, without backing,
sh'eet, and it is so simple
GRAND
rom
ompass
Piano, Two Trips to
as your assurance of musical quality
the highest possible to attain. Know
ing this The Herald has selected as Its
fourth grand prize a piano of this
make and we are convinced that who
ever wins it will not regret the effort
put forth to acquire an Instrument of
such exceptional character and in
dividuality. In selecting the district prises no
difficulty was encountered In deciding
upon the first prize. The Victrola has
been out just long enough to have it3
merits well advertised and we venture
to state that there is not a home In the
entire southwest which would not wel
come the advent of one of these en
trancing little music makers. For
years everyone has enjoyed hearing
their favorite selections on the grapho
phone but there was always the
scratching of the needle on the record
to mar an otherwise perfect rendition.
In the Victrola this is eliminated and
the reproductions of both voice arid In
strument are as nearly perfect 33 the
mind of man can conceive.
The set of silverware which will be
given as the second district prize is a,
beautiful pattern finished in the well
known silver grc.y finish and has been
assorted very carefully so as to make It
as useful as possible for all purposes.
The third district prize- will be an up
todate camera with all the -usual equip
ment and' will give its possesor many
an hour of pleasant pastime.
Of course, everyone who enters th
contest cannot win one of these prizes,
but there are 16 prizes now on the list,
and in addition to these there will ba
offered several hunured dollars wortn
of special prizes for the contestants to
work for. Anyone who works at all is
sure to get at least one prize, and at the
final windup it will be found that thosa
who have gone ahead working consist
ently and tried to make thoir vote as
good as possible, no mattei what the
others were doing, will be the ones to
get the grand prizes and share in the
district distribution.
To Induce contestants to start hus
tling at once The Herald Is now mak
ing the following special offer:
Standing of Contest
ants is Published
Twice a Week.
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